10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUNNEST»
Discover the use of
dunnest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dunnest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
'dunnest'. (an. adjective. 'now. seldom. heard. but. in. the. stable'). and. 'knife',
occurring in Macbeth I. v. 51—2, as particularly disconcerting examples. Yet if for
Johnson these curt Saxon monosyllables represent a stylistic aberration, then a ...
John Strachan, Richard Terry, 2011
Come to my woman's breasts, 45 And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring
ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief !
Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife
see ...
William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson, Andrew Jackson George, 1908
Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife
see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry, 'Hold, hold.' Enter macbeth Great Glamis, worthy Cawdor, Greater than ...
William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller, 2008
4
Shakspeare's Himself Again: Or, The Language of the Poet ...
Come, thick night, - And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell ! That my keen
knife see not tlie wound it makes ; Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the
dark, To cry, Hold, hold!- Come thick night, &c] A similar invocation is found in A ...
5 Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, 9 you murdering
ministers— WVherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's
mischief l' Come, thick night, And pall ' thee in the dunnest smoke of hell! to give
place in my ...
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, 1807
6
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth. 1873
Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife
see not the wound it makes, 50 Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
45. effect and it] effecting it Becket. 45. if\ hit fff effect] essect Fa. purpose.
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, 1873
7
The Complete Macbeth: An Annotated Edition of the ...
... 1,364) 54 You wait on nature's mischief! Wait on: “attend, assist” Come, thick
night, (Bevington, 19); nature's mischief: “evil done to, or within, nature” (
Riverside, 1,364) 55 And pall thee in the dunnest Pall thee: “wrap yourself”;
smoke of hell, ...
Donald J Richardson, 2013
George Henry Miles. And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen
knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the
dark, To cry " Hold, hold ! " She is even happy in the completeness of her fierce
intent, ...
You wait on Nature's mischief. Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest
smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep
through the blanket of the dark To cry, Hold, hold 1 ” These words are more
frightful ...
10
The complete works of Shakspere, with a memoir, and essay, ...
To say nothing of the difficulty of peeping through blankness, what obtuseness
must that be which, after night has been invoked to assume a "pall" of the "
dunnest smoke of hell," cannot sco the eminent fitness of the phrase, " the blanket
of the ...
William Shakespeare, Bryan Waller Procter, Richard Grant White, 1870
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUNNEST»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
dunnest is used in the context of the following news items.
Billy Keane: Freckled finger of fate decrees our boys can eclipse …
Macbeth, who is up to no good, asks the stars to "hide your fires" and Lady Macbeth prays for "the dunnest smoke of hell". Dunnest means ... «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
When The Haze Takes Over
... and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark to cry 'Hold, hold!'”. «Outlook, Mar 15»
What Does President Obama 'Know' About Ethiopia's "Election"?
Meles' ghost will be hanging over the 2015 "election" like "pall in the dunnest (dark) smoke of hell", to paraphrase Shakespeare. «AllAfrica.com, Oct 14»
iPhones can apparently be hacked with malicious charger
over the years i read some pretty off the wall crap. but this has to be one of the dunnest yet. If this is apple, windows etc. this shows how low ... «CNET, Jun 13»
Auckland's lamest street names
And the guy who said that was the Dunnest cumb of all of them. And the upshot of all this is that when I tell people my address I'm going to have ... «Stuff.co.nz, May 13»
The Weekend's TV: Macbeth, Sun, BBC4Take Me Out, Sat, ITV1
At one moment Lady Macbeth (played with a pressure-cooker intensity by Kate Fleetwood) was invoking the night to "pall thee in the dunnest ... «Independent, Dec 10»
